Quotes about Desire
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
— Judges 16:1
“Hannah, why are you crying?” her husband Elkanah asked. “Why won’t you eat? Why is your heart so grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
— 1 Samuel 1:8
“Please, my lord,” said Hannah, “as surely as you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you praying to the LORD.
— 1 Samuel 1:26
I prayed for this boy, and since the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him,
— 1 Samuel 1:27
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
— 1 Samuel 2:5
As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”
— 1 Samuel 9:20
How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”
— 1 Samuel 14:30
After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.
— 2 Samuel 13:1
Amnon was sick with frustration over his sister Tamar, for she was a virgin, and it seemed implausible for him to do anything to her.
— 2 Samuel 13:2
so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
— 2 Samuel 13:4
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
— 2 Samuel 13:6
Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
— 2 Samuel 13:9